Gidlow, Elsa

A creed for free women

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the author, Mill Valley, CA. n.d., Single printed sheet, 8.5x11 inches, with Gidlow's poem printed in faux-calligraphy. Small broadside likely printed in the 1970s at Druid Heights Artist retreat. Gidlow published the first openly lesbian volume of poetry in the US. She lived at the Druid Heights Artists Retreat in Mill Valley in her final years.